The English ConstitutionLittle, Brown, and Company, 1873 - 351 páginas |
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... soon as yet to attempt to estimate the effect of the Reform Act of 1867. The people en- franchised under it do not yet know their own power : a single election , so far from teaching us how they will use that power , has not been even ...
... soon as yet to attempt to estimate the effect of the Reform Act of 1867. The people en- franchised under it do not yet know their own power : a single election , so far from teaching us how they will use that power , has not been even ...
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... you have only to cut down the old trees , and immediately new trees come up to replace them ; the seeds were waiting in the ground , and they began to grow as soon as the withdrawal of the old INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 5 Οι.
... you have only to cut down the old trees , and immediately new trees come up to replace them ; the seeds were waiting in the ground , and they began to grow as soon as the withdrawal of the old INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION . 5 Οι.
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Walter Bagehot. to grow as soon as the withdrawal of the old ones brought in light and air . These new questions of themselves would have made a new atmosphere , new parties , new debates . Of course I am not arguing that so important an ...
Walter Bagehot. to grow as soon as the withdrawal of the old ones brought in light and air . These new questions of themselves would have made a new atmosphere , new parties , new debates . Of course I am not arguing that so important an ...
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... soon lose all influence . People would say " it was too clever by half , " and in an Englishman's mouth that means a very severe censure . The English people would think it grossly anomalous if their elected assembly of rich men were ...
... soon lose all influence . People would say " it was too clever by half , " and in an Englishman's mouth that means a very severe censure . The English people would think it grossly anomalous if their elected assembly of rich men were ...
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... soon as it hears anything which it particularly dislikes . With an Assembly in this temper , real discussion is impos- sible , and Parliamentary Government is impossible too , because the Parliament can neither choose men nor measures ...
... soon as it hears anything which it particularly dislikes . With an Assembly in this temper , real discussion is impos- sible , and Parliamentary Government is impossible too , because the Parliament can neither choose men nor measures ...
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Página 139 - Having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister; such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her Constitutional right of dismissing that Minister.
Página 79 - hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens the legislative part of the State to the executive part".
Página 76 - The efficient secret of the English Constitution may be described as the close union, the nearly complete fusion, of the executive and legislative powers.
Página 85 - It has been said that England invented the phrase, "Her Majesty's Opposition ;" that it was the first government which made a criticism of administration as much a part of the polity as administration itself.
Página 139 - To state the matter shortly, the Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights, the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn, and a King of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
Página 70 - There are two great objects which every constitution must attain to be successful, which every old and celebrated one must have wonderfully achieved : every constitution must first gain authority and then use authority ; it must first win the loyalty and confidence of mankind, and then employ that homage in the work of government.
Página 17 - But in all cases it must be remembered that a political combination of the lower classes, as such and for their own objects, is an evil of the first magnitude...
Página 94 - ... ruler before the occasion. The great qualities, the imperious will, the rapid energy, the eager nature fit for a great crisis are not required — are impediments — in common times. A Lord Liverpool is better in everyday politics than a Chatham — a Louis Philippe far better than a Napoleon. By the structure of the world we often want, at the sudden occurrence of a grave tempest, to change the helmsman — to replace the pilot of the calm by the pilot of the storm.
Página 99 - The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
Página 154 - Nobility is the symbol of mind. It has the marks from which the mass of men always used to infer mind, and often still infer it. A common clever man who goes into a country place will get no reverence ; but the " old squire " will get reverence. Even after he is insolvent, when every one knows that his ruin is but a question of time, he will get five times as much respect from the common peasantry as the newlymade rich man who sits beside him. The common peasantry will listen to his nonsense more...